Making African Heritage Accessible to All
The Tiekie Box Project
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The Problem
If the history of Africa was written in 100 pages, The Transatlantic Slave Trade would start at page 99.
95% of African Heritage is not on the continent due to the looting and intentional ethnocide carried out during the centuries long enslavement and trade of African people and colonialism.
The harmful effects of these events have continued today as unhealed trauma, transmitted from one generation to the next, sustained through structural dehumanization. This trauma has had significant impact not only on Africans and the African diasporas, but also on peoples of European descent and on interpersonal and intercommunal dynamics in contemporary western societies.– Scherto R. Gill and Garrett Thomson.
The Tiekie Box Project seeks to reclaim and transform the way African Descendant Communities and the Diaspora engage with their Cultural Heritage, by elevating and expanding the work of global cultural rights activists and preservationists working to protect their heritage